The most maddening aspect of the music industry is its micro-management of an artist’s image. With seemingly every album cycle comes an attempt by the artist and their publicity crew to contrive an aura that will “play well” in a certain market - simply follow Omaha’s own Icky Blossoms over the next few weeks as they prepare for their first studio...

Rock Paper Dynamite are returning to Omaha, just in time for Snake Island to leave town on tour. Rock Paper Dynamite pulled up stakes last year for North Carolina, but now they seem to be splitting time between here and there. The band's presence in...

Pauli’s isn’t Pauli’s anymore. The old bar on an old stretch of Leavenworth Street used to be a hub of activity during the College World Series. Sometime in the early-1980s the ESPN talking heads made it their home base following telecasts and with that the crowds came. It never made much sense. The bar wasn’t anywhere near Rosenblatt Stadium but people kept coming, swayed by the chance to rub shoulders and bend...

d CANCER (6.22-7.22) Food’s the answer ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬— but what is it you/we truly seek, when you/we eat? You’ll find out after these next 4 weeks. June 19th marked a Gemini/Cancer Cazimi New Moon. Anything far out happen just before noon? Replay, recalculate and reiterate on July 18th, around 11 p.m., during a 2nd Cazimi New Moon, which takes...

The body of a pro athlete is his or her tool. If it doesn’t work, they don’t work. Same in college athletics. At major universities, scholar/athlete play big-time sports because it’s important to them. Maintaining a finely tuned piece of equipment covers all the bases, from nutrition to skills, mental acuity to physical rehabilitation after injury. And if an athlete — at any level — can gain an edge, well, that’s...